Then, slowly, he unDresden'd her with his eyes. pic.twitter.com/PrCzH47JfM
— Cuffé (@CuffyMeh) September 12, 2014
No, that’s not him on the screen, but The Hill says it was Edward Snowden’s would-be nemesis:
… Hayden was director of the CIA and the NSA under President George W. Bush…
The general cautioned that air power alone might not be enough to defeat the al Qaeda offshoot.
“We need to be wary of a strategy that puts emphasis on air power and air power alone,” he said.
“The sooner we take the fight into Syria against [ISIS], the better off we’ll be,” he added.
Asked about the remarks on Friday, State Department deputy spokesman Marie Harf said Hayden is “well aware” of the tools that the U.S. has to take down terrorists.
“General Hayden, all joking aside, knows very well the counterterrorism tools that we have at our disposal from when he was CIA director — some of which we obviously don’t utilize any more, as we’ve been clear, but some of which are tools we still have at our disposal, including, of course, direct action. So he is well aware of how you take the fight directly to terrorists.”
Harf reiterated that the the United States won’t be using American ground troops to fight ISIS…
My emphasis, because I have a sharp ear for the unspoken. Also bleakly entertaining, from a commentor at NYMag: “And like casual sex, someone probably overpaid for it.”
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Apart from waiting for the end of the world (just like every night!), what’s on the agenda for the start of the weekend?
kc
Ladies and gentlemen, Mark Sanford.
burnspbesq
@kc:
No way you’re getting me to click on that link. I still have work to do this afternoon, and it will be much harder if my keyboard is covered with vomit.
kc
@burnspbesq:
It really is barf-inducing.
hildebrand
Same agenda as usual this time of year – grinding out application materials for positions in either history or religious studies, and then hoping like heck that I can at least get some interviews.
Dog On Porch
Not only are corporate Doctor Strangeloves in control of the United States government, such is their arrogance that they openly mock us all.
srv
So when we get drone pics, it’ll be Obama’s fappening?
Amir Khalid
I seem to recall that only a few days ago President Obama was explaining why America cannot take ownership of the fight on the ground. Hasn’t General Hayden been paying attention?
Villago Delenda Est
@kc: Sanford is a vile creature. He dares, dares to invoke the name of Jesus in his defense.
Fuck him. I hope his ex takes him for every last farthing.
Villago Delenda Est
@Amir Khalid:
I believe that the SATSQ on that is “negatory”
Corner Stone
If allegations are true, and the indictment holds up, Adrian Peterson is a much bigger scumbag than Ray Rice ever thought about being.
Suffern ACE
Yeah. The entire Iraq war has been like one long night of passion spent with a semi-drunk salesman you met at the regional office products distributers convention and trade show in 1997 when your marriage was starting to unravel. I see his point.
sparrow
Open thread, huh.
Well, I have a fun topic to bring up. I moved to Baltimore 2 years ago and have basically no friends. It sucks. I have my darling, lovely boyfriend (or partner, whatever, we’re committed), who is the reason I’m in this city in the first place. And we have a decent number of friends in DC from his previous life there, but that’s an hour away.
I’m just over 30, and I really do not know how to make friends. It doesn’t help that I don’t really like most people. That is to say, I don’t dislike them either, but they usually kind of bore me. I don’t want to talk about what someone said to her cousin and oh my god for real did he really say that??! I don’t want to talk about what car you’re going to buy or how much you want the new iphone or whatever TV show kids are watching these days. If you want to talk politics, science, history, sociology… in short, if you’re an ideas person, great! We can be friends. But I never seem to figure out who those people are. Or they already have tons of friends and don’t really need new ones. I should probably try to make friends with whoever I can that isn’t a jerk at this point, but I just don’t know how to feign interest in the kinds of things the average person cares about.
Bleh. I’m depressed today. Carry on!
scav
On the more obvious news front, not all forms of religiously based objections are apparently to be deferred to: Illinois affiliate of NRA brands Catholic clergyman an Isis-style ‘terrorist’ following protest calling for tighter gun restrictions.
Also getting a bit of a goggle remembering those innocent days when a brief-nipple-fash were the un-family-friendly images the NFL was worried about. What sort of child-switching is bad enough to get TX cops’ attention?
SatanicPanic
@Corner Stone: OK, I’m going to ask a stupid question, but I don’t understand what he’s being indicted for.
Suffern ACE
@Corner Stone: It would help if the article wouldn’t run the incidents together. Why is Texas indicting him for a crime another man committed in Sioux Falls? Is this the same incident? The article doesn’t mention what happened.
Bobby B.
And so it goes (someone had to say it).
Suffern ACE
Teen opens donut shop in Virginia, townfolks think she’s going to show her muffin.
Villago Delenda Est
@Corner Stone: What the hell are the allegations? That Petersen failed to stop someone in Sioux Falls from killing his child?
I’m having problems, from that article, understanding what is going on here. Whoever wrote it is an idiot, and whoever allowed it to be published so void of information is an idiot. It makes no damn sense at all.
Mnemosyne
@sparrow:
It’s the classic advice, but it’s a classic for a reason: go volunteer with an organization you find interesting. You’ll meet other people with similar interests by default because you all decided to volunteer there.
SatanicPanic
@Suffern ACE: @Villago Delenda Est: Glad I wasn’t the only person who didn’t get that
Villago Delenda Est
@Suffern ACE: “Christian” vermin in action, it seems.
Dog On Porch
@srv: I’m inclined to credit Obama for the fact that we have thus far avoided war with Iran, and/or Syria, and/or Russia. If literally any republican had been president for the past 6 years, this country would be up to its eyeballs in blood.
Or had Hillary Clinton been president.
Corner Stone
@Suffern ACE: Sorry, multiple tabs open. He’s been indicted for physically injuring a child. A doctor reported injuries to the police.
“Minnesota Vikings superstar Adrian Peterson has been indicted for child abuse in North Montgomery County, TX … TMZ Sports has learned”
Not the incident with the other individual. Wrong link by me.
srv
@scav: What does it take for someone to take Fantasy Football Assaults League seriously?
Think of all the constructive debate people could have. Kids could know every players crime stats.
scav
@SatanicPanic: Deadspin seems to updating with details now. Different kid and certainly case.
Villago Delenda Est
@Corner Stone: Well, ESPN needs to get its act together, because mud is clearer than that link you gave us. They’re probably too busy fapping over Tebow or Manziel.
Corner Stone
Yes, bad link by me. He’s not indicted for someone else hurting/killing a child. He’s been indicted after a doctor reported to LEO signs of physical abuse he sustained (allegedly) while in AP’s custody/care.
srv
@Dog On Porch: He seems committed to something else.
JPL
@burnspbesq: It’s worth reading the comments. They are about fifty/fifty so far. There’s a lot of keep the faith and Jesus will be with you crap, but there is also, Mark you are a drunk who has problems with anger. Oh, He and his love broke their engagement because of the ex-wife.
I haven’t linked to the Peterson stories, so this might be redundant, but a doctor called the state authorities.
SatanicPanic
@scav: Yikes, that’s awful. Sounds like something James Dobson would advocate.
JPL
@Corner Stone: Yup, even TX authorities will follow up if a doctor calls.
Elizabelle
@Suffern ACE:
What a cool teenaged girl! 17 years old, and she’s started a great business. Has a great mother too. Glad to hear this story, and I think she’ll do great against those cowardly bullies.
Shall make a pilgrimage to Front Royal to buy some donuts in October, once the leaves are turning.
Patrick
@Corner Stone:
Let’s be careful before we start piling on. Here’s from a different source:
The charges stem from allegations Peterson beat a young son, according to the Isiah Carey of Fox26 in Houston. The station also reported Peterson was first ‘no billed’ by the grand jury when the prosecutor first presented this case but the District Attorney’s office took it a second time and this time the panel in Montgomery County accepted the criminal charge.
http://www.startribune.com/sports/vikings/274946031.html
The first Grand July no billed. Does this in essence mean that the DA in Missouri can take as many Grand Juries as needed until he gets an indictment against Wilson? I realize state laws are different etc etc, but can he in principle?
By the way, a DA could get a ham sandwich indicted if he wanted to. So it is rather interesting here that the first GJ no billed it.
Villago Delenda Est
@Patrick:
No, one should always proceed directly to the penalty phase on the initial report. ESPECIALLY if the suspect is, shall we say, of the surplus melanin persuasion.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
I’m feeling better today than I was yesterday. I said fuck the job search and fuck the Kickstarter. I’m just writing. (More accurately, revising.) That’s it. Writing is stressful, but a completely different, more rewarding, kind of stressful.
Roger Moore
@Amir Khalid:
Since Obama is of the wrong party, everything he says must be contradicted.
Corner Stone
@Patrick: I hope you’ll note that I did not, in fact, pile on and pre-guilt him.
He has allegedly admitted to “whooping” the child, but how badly can a 4 year old act out to earn open lacerations that a doctor *and* a colleague both feel are abuse?
Dog On Porch
@srv: @srv: Commitment to avoiding bloodshed* is as good as it gets for any president.
*(I know, “drones”).
That said, if this country commits to war Congress should vote it up or down.
Roger Moore
@Suffern ACE:
I think it’s more like Mark Sanford’s experience hiking the Appalachian Trail.
Villago Delenda Est
@Corner Stone: From the photos I saw at Deadspin, that looks pretty severe. Obvious lacerations, akin to a flogging.
Corner Stone
@Villago Delenda Est: This doesn’t make any sense. He’s guilty of abusing a 4 year old because he’s black?
srv
Here’s what a real Texas man does with his son.
Keith G
@Corner Stone: That’s Montgomery, Texas, Jake.
Another Holocene Human
The war porn on NPR right now is nauseating. Mebbe I’m too uncritical about Obama. Think I had dreamy eyes watching his address the other day. But there’s no room to question him and god knows he knows more about this situation than I do. It’s that horrid feeling of giving oxygen to the war machine, dropping bombs funds their lobbying for more and MOAR WAR.
Looking at medieval history, looks like the mess the Brits left in the middle east, authoritarian hereditary rulers, ethnic groups dumped in different countries randomly so nationalism, such as what is giving Ukraine a portion of cohesion, cannot develop or becomes destabilizing to the artificial state. It’s no wonder Iran is enemy #1 they have a border that roughly corresponds to an ethnic and language grouping and they’ve had two toss the imperialist bums out revolutions in one century. Anglo-elitist pigs furious over this one weird, old trick.
Corner Stone
@sparrow:
This sounded like one of the greatest #humblebrags I have ever read.
Amir Khalid
@Villago Delenda Est:
Here’s what I understand from the story: Adrian Peterson was indicted for hitting one of his children with a switch. Another of his children was allegedly beaten and killed last October by another man, Joseph Patterson, the boyfriend of that child’s mother. Whoever wrote this story (I didn’t see a byline) just threw in the paragraph about the incident last year because it was also connected to Peterson. But this is a badly written story. The latter half is padding that has nothing to do with the indictment reported on in the first half.
Another Holocene Human
OT: to Ozark Hillbilly, thanks for the encouragement Monday. Our arbitration went well, we pretty much licked ’em (they had nothing) and there’s been a sea change in management’s attitude already.
skerry
@sparrow: Have you ever looked at meetup.com? There are hundreds of groups in Baltimore City and surrounding counties with lots of interests.
If you are athletic, the City has a number of young adult sport leagues. My daughter, 27, plays on a kick-ball team in Patterson Park each week.
There are lots of community organizations. If you are interested in climate change, let me know and I can point you to some. That’s where I spend my time when I’m not here.
Dr. Omed
@Dog On Porch: In Turkey they speak of the derin devlet, the deep state, a congeries of elites exercising influence covertly. What America has is the derp state.
Keith G
@Another Holocene Human:
He is a politician and a mortal so there is always room for questioning and a critical examination. Whether there is evidence of poor policy formulation and implementation would be another story.
And FWIW, I am not sure how anyone could put together a better course of action – though I guess one might exist.
Mnemosyne
@Patrick:
It’s probably going to be a tricky case, because most states have an exception if it’s the parent who causes bodily harm. There’s also a strong movement among evangelical Christians to follow a horrendous book called To Train Up a Child that advises parents to switch their children (even infants!) at the slightest hint of disobedience — Libby at LoveJoyFeminism has a long-running series about the book. There have been several fatal abuse cases that seem to be linked to parents following the advice in the book, but of course the authors deny any responsibility.
I will be completely unsurprised if it turns out that Peterson was following the “parenting” advice given by that book because it was recommended to him by someone at church.
Another Holocene Human
@Dog On Porch: Agreed.
It feels wrong to throw up my hands and say, Hey, I’m no ME expert, let Obama handle it. Also, seems like he knows that another American invasion is no solution and he’s trying to empower, armtwist local players. The Saudis have been quietly pouring kerosene on this fire here, don’t forget. But yeah. Fuck it. How many times has this man kept us out of a war? He’s earned to us a degree of benefit of the doubt.
Trollhattan
@skerry:
Was gonna say, time to volunteer for a worthy cause. Lord knows, in any metro area the budgets have been slashed for community services, early childhood education, the arts, libraries, parks, etc. and there’s a bottomless need for help. I understand the Democrat Party(tm) will be happy to take some free time off your hands, and you can share in everybody’s contempt for the teabag set while dialing for voters.
Or, join a gym, take ‘roids and in a couple of months, begin to yell at people.
Villago Delenda Est
@Corner Stone: Well, given that the prosecutor had to go another round with a grand jury, it appears that SOMEONE has a hard on for doing something to this guy, and given the state we’re talking about, I have my doubts as to the blindness of justice.
Trollhattan
@Mnemosyne:
Speaking of
loomingactual problems for the NFL.Three in ten.
Amir Khalid
Proof that Sarah Palin is really a cartoon character.
Villago Delenda Est
@Another Holocene Human:
This is precisely the problem the chickenhawks of the Village have with the guy. Other people and their kids need to die for the benefit of their ratings.
sparrow
@skerry: Thanks! I am going to check that out for sure. I see a hiking group that looks promising.
Villago Delenda Est
@Amir Khalid: Yeah, which is why someone at ESPN needs to be on unemployment right now.
Very sloppy “reporting”, conflating two totally separate incidents and providing ZERO information on the crime that Petersen has been indicted for.
srv
Sarah man’s up:
Trollhattan
And also, also, too, too. FFS people!
What, they couldn’t find anybody to say, “I think he’s dreamy!”?
sparrow
@Trollhattan: I’ve tried volunteering my time for tutoring (I have a PhD in physics, and have a decent teaching/tutoring record) but a lot of the organizations around here seem really disorganized and will respond to my first email but never follow up (partly on me, I guess). It doesn’t help that I’m a workaholic, too. I think not having friends kind of reinforces workaholic tendencies, and vice versa.
Trollhattan
@srv:
Wow, talk about lessons not learned.
Ella in New Mexico
@sparrow:
It sucks being an introvert, which doesn’t mean shy. It means you are highly selective and prefer fewer but deeper relationships to the more widely diversified Friends list of the common extrovert. It’s even harder when you’re a smart, introspective, creatively thinking introvert. Like my husband has said to me on more than one occasion “It’s really lonely in there, isn’t it?” ;-)
It’s always going to be harder for you to evade a little loneliness. But take the advice of some of the previous posters: participate in things that matter to you so that you can at least cross paths with more like-minded people. Don’t isolate yourself. Sometimes, go against your sense that someone is not up to the task of being your friend and take that relationship for what it CAN be. Come from a place of openness to the commonness of your mutual human experience. You’d be surprised how much you can learn from and enjoy the company of people you had no idea had anything going on up top, nor thought you had a single thing in common with. Sometimes a “good enough” friendship slowly reveals itself to be much better than you thought it would be.
Buddhist thinking on stuff like this really helped me with these issues. Good luck to you.
Villago Delenda Est
@Trollhattan:
I don’t think they tried hard enough, myself.
Sheesh.
Tenar Darell
@sparrow: Captain Awkward might have some good tips. Lots of the advice is geared toward introvert issues. And Mnemosyne’s suggestion about volunteering sounds like something I’ve read there before.
I hear you on small talk. In my experience your love of facts may be used to brush up on one topic that more people are comfortable chatting about, like mystery novels, or like fun apps for phones can be useful. I’ve done this not to “make friends” but to enable me to be able to not stand around tongue tied as I try not to enthuse about the latest thing I read on the Civil War or Jim Crow or the prison industrial complex. Your mileage may vary.
srv
@Trollhattan: The Stars Who Beat Women And The Fans Who Love Them.
Has The Bieber started slapping women around yet?
SatanicPanic
@srv: Wait, is she admitting some blame for his loss?
Villago Delenda Est
@srv: And I thank FSM every single day that this ditz was not a hearbeat away from the fucking launch codes.
Roger Moore
@Trollhattan:
Suddenly it makes a lot more sense to me that hardly any current NFL head coaches had substantial playing careers.
Villago Delenda Est
@Amir Khalid: Jessica Rabbit is more realistic than Sarah Palin.
Villago Delenda Est
@Roger Moore: Hmmm….still doesn’t explain Roger Goodall’s brain dead handling of L’Affaire Rice.
Dog On Porch
@Roger Moore: In turn, I estimate that 90% of NFL couch potatoes will suffer brain damage from the oceans of beer they will swill over a lifetime.
Villago Delenda Est
@srv: For my next trick, we’ll go to Burgers and Bullets and fire an Uzi!
Mnemosyne
@Trollhattan:
I can’t help wondering if Rice’s actions are related to CTE, or if he’s just an asshole. As far as I know, until this incident, he didn’t have a bad reputation and people’s personalities can drastically change with that kind of brain injury, but abusers are also very good at concealing their actions, so it’s hard to say.
SatanicPanic
I am down to watching only the Super Bowl, but I think my New Year’s resolution is to skip it. Football is fucked up.
Ella in New Mexico
@srv: Was the Todd-ster sitting next to her with nasal packing hanging out of his schnozz?
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/sarah-palin-family-reportedly-involved-drunken-brawl
Apparently, she even put up a couple of Facebook posts to give herself some kind of alibi that she was “out of town” at some religious event during the brawl. A cop that was there that night actually commented on her site that she shouldn’t fib, cuz she saw her there. All so she can continue to shove her mug in the Fauz newsfeed cameras.
Incredible absence of any and all insight, shame or conscience in that woman. She’s a frigging sociopath.
srv
@SatanicPanic: She’s going to go on a global apology tour.
Roger Moore
@Villago Delenda Est:
It doesn’t say that only former players suffer from brain damage, just that they’re more likely to than the average man on the street. Goodall is the exception.
Trollhattan
@sparrow:
To be honest, after I decided I was old enough to no longer “need” to socialize with work folks outside the office, I made new friends at a much slower clip. What has changed my social life more than anything else was having a kid in school–suddenly you’re thrown into the parental hopper with a host of other folks, many of whom were in the same “what the heck do we do now?” mode. It’s like freshman dorm.
This is not a “go have babies” suggestion. [Okay, wait, I’ll put on some Mormon underwear and point out your failure to not have eight little brats already. See, you and I now belong to a club!]
In sum, it was a big lifestyle shift, not exactly a tactical one, that had me meeting dozens of folks with at least this one thing in common and out of that cohort I’ve made many close friends. Definitely product of straying far, far from my comfort zone.
Some of them still gossip since we all live in the same part of town, but what can you do?
Villago Delenda Est
@Ella in New Mexico:
This is her reaction to anything bad. Lie about it, no matter how transparent and obvious the lie. The woman lies with greater ease than she breathes.
Agree with you that she shows all the signs of being a sociopath, and she’s raising her spawn that way, too.
Ella in New Mexico
@Mnemosyne: I have wondered the same thing about him. He did state that he had been drinking straight liquor heavily that night. Heavy alcohol mixed with TBI often turn violent in otherwise non-violent people.
Roger Moore
@srv:
Can she invite Shrub and his puppeteer along with her? The stop in the Netherlands is sure to be fun.
Amir Khalid
@srv:
Very generous of Sarah Palin, offering to take the blame for the defeat in 2008. But it’s hilarious to say McCain is the President America should have had to take on the Islamic State. A man who couldn’t avoid embarrassing himself before David Letterman’s TV audience simply doesn’t have the crisis-management chops to be POTUS.
Mike in NC
Idiot Air Force generals have been saying since the 1920s that airpower along will win wars. They should stick to what they’re good at, like playing golf.
Howard Beale IV
@Amir Khalid: And to think that McCain could have actually won had it not been for his selection of Governor Mooselini as Veep.
Shit, there’s dozens of mayors who were more qualified than Caribou Barbie. And the fact that Walnuts still gets scads of airtime for his babbling on current events?!?! The sooner he vapor locks, the better.
JPL
@srv: And what countries is she going? All of them, of course.
Villago Delenda Est
@Amir Khalid
Precisely. I still strongly feel that’s the incident that demonstrated, conclusively, that McBomb was totally out of his depth. A non-weasel wouldn’t have concocted such a very easily revealed lie.
Mike in NC
@srv: Sarah Palin should just get it all over with and apologize for ever being conceived.
JPL
@Villago Delenda Est: My favorite McCain moment was looking for Mr. Puddles.
Villago Delenda Est
@JPL: “John…can I call you a cab?”
Letterman milked that idiocy for a solid two weeks.
But yeah, Stewart really got mileage out of that…”I have snausages!”
JPL
@Villago Delenda Est: You have to admit that when you think of that sketch, you laugh. It was priceless.
Trollhattan
@Villago Delenda Est:
LGM has a post up on the story, including this.
This is not done, not to any child, ever, by anybody.
Women, children…what, beating each other on the field isn’t enough?
Trollhattan
@Mike in NC: Definitely with Farley on folding the Air Force back into the other services.
Trollhattan
@Howard Beale IV: The frightening thought is who would Arizona send to the senate to replace him? Jan Brewer? That Burgers and Bullets owner?
Hal
@Howard Beale IV:
McCain was losing. His selection of Palin was the only thing that gave that election any semblance of an actual race. My question is, did Palin scare off voters or did she give him a slight boost. Either way he was toast.
Mnemosyne
@Trollhattan:
Like I said above, I can almost guarantee you that Peterson was given a hideous book called To Train Up A Child by someone at his church, because beating your child with a switch is exactly the advice the book gives parents. I don’t want to link to the book itself, but there’s a link at #51 above to some coverage about the book. It’s absolutely sickening and yet a lot of conservative Christian parents buy into it hook, line, and sinker.
ETA: And this is not at all meant to be an excuse for Peterson, because any rational parent would read that book and say, “Holy fuck, what is wrong with these people?!”
scav
♬ ♪ ♭
Family Values
Family Values
G O P
G O P
Apply to Other People
‘pply to other people
Just Not Me
Just Not Me
♩ ♬ ♫
They’re getting a round going. . .
Feebog
Spending the second day in the hospital after a fairly serious episode of A Fib. Hoped to get out this afternoon, but looks like I am stuck here for at least one more day. Food sucks, but I have some very good looking nurses taking care of me, so there’s that. Getting old is not for sissies.
Howard Beale IV
@Trollhattan: The reality is it probably won’t matter who they elect. Even when McCain was on the right side of an issue he got whacked.
NotMax
Hardly a revelation regarding the U.S.A., but found the listings by country interesting.
Trollhattan
Crap, just checked and it’s 102. Bicycle ride home tonight is going to be really swell!
Commenting at Balloon Juice since 1937
How about ISIL can have their territory in exchange for any and all people they have kidnapped (Iraqui women, journalists, etc)? Until their neighbors give a shit, why should we?
Amir Khalid
@Villago Delenda Est:
And when McCain did get to DC, where the George Walker Bush administration had stage-managed events to try to make him look presidential, he blew it. In explaining his endorsement of Obama, Colin Powell said that crisis was like a “final exam” for both candidates — with the clear implication that Obama aced it and McCain, well, didn’t.
Trollhattan
@Mnemosyne:
The hell is with rich people who don’t follow the rules and hire undocumented nannies to run their households and raise their children? Do we have to teach these people everything?
JPL
Just so everyone knows.. Peterson’s lawyer said, “It is important to remember that Adrian never intended to harm his son and deeply regrets the unintentional injury.”
Amir Khalid
Just curious: would anyone here eat a cheeseburger that looks like this?
Roger Moore
@NotMax:
Really? I thought it was something of a revelation, because I keep hearing about how service in the USA is massively behind the rest of the developed world, but those numbers suggest that we’re in the same general range as Western Europe by all the metrics they’re using. I find that very interesting.
Roger Moore
@Amir Khalid:
Once I knew it was colored with squid ink, I would be intrigued. I like squid ink pasta, so a squid ink burger would be worth trying.
scav
@Amir Khalid: If it showed up magically on my plate and I was hungry? Probably, but I would be missing the squid and polenta all the while. Would I pay money for it . . . come on . . .
eta @Roger Moore: The pasta’s good too, I may have just happened upon an unusually good batch of polenta.
JPL
@Amir Khalid: No. Although I eat beef, it is not from a fast food place.
Mnemosyne
@JPL:
I’m telling ya — his defense is going to be that his pastor/someone at his church gave him the Pearls’ book and he believes every word of it. He’s going to go straight to a religious defense. People who aren’t in those circles have no idea how pernicious that fucking book is and how widely it’s followed.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
Three weeks until hockey season. I can make it that long. I think.
NotMax
In FYWP moderation limbo. *sigh*
JPL
@Mnemosyne: IMO, a good prosecution could counter with, he’s a football player and the boy is four. Now that we know that he used his hands besides the switch, it will be harder to defend. He admitted guilt by the statement.
Suzanne
@sparrow: Come to Phoenix and hang out with me. You sound cool.
Amir Khalid
@Roger Moore:
From what I read in these threads, I understand that internet service varies widely over the US, depending on the remoteness of where one lives.
Mnemosyne
@JPL:
Don’t get me wrong — the asshole should absolutely be prosecuted, and hopefully he’s already only getting supervised visits with his son. But if he brings up during the trial that he was just following the Pearls’ advice on how to keep his baby close to Jeebus and didn’t mean any harm, I’m not sure a Texas jury would convict him.
burnspbesq
@srv:
No woman will get within arm’s reach of that … thing.
Roger Moore
@Amir Khalid:
That’s true. They are excluding any results that are more than some distance from the server they’re contacting. That helps to exclude problems from the backbone, but it also disguises problems with poor service in rural areas.
Suffern ACE
@Amir Khalid: based on what we post and stream, I don’t know why we want it to arrive faster.
JPL
@Mnemosyne: That’s true. There will be tears and justification about how he just wants his children to grow up being good men. Good for the Vikings for sitting him out, though. Most teams wouldn’t do that, imo.
burnspbesq
@JPL:
SMH
JPL
@burnspbesq: Let me be the first to say, it’s good news for the Patriots.
WaterGirl
@Feebog: That really sucks. So sorry to hear that! Give ’em hell and flirt with the nurses and get ready to go home in a day or two. Hang in there, sending good thoughts your way!!
burnspbesq
@JPL:
I think I am officially beyond caring about the NFL.
But I will be setting my alarm for 4:30 tomorrow so I don’t miss Arsenal – Man Sucky.
Aside: it’s great to have a relationship with your kid that is grounded in trust and mutual respect, but sometimes you end up with TMI. I texted him at about 3:30 my time to remind him that Arsenal has a match at 12:45 tomorrow, so if he has any errands to run he should get them in early (he now lives off Stroud Green Rd., about six blocks from the Finsbury Park tube station). His return text begins with “I’m too drunk to get up early …”
Poopyman
@sparrow: History, you say? Well, you know what anniversary is this weekend, starting today. Once the festivities are over next week why don’t you wander over to the Maryland Historical Society at 201 West Monument Street, see what they’ve got, and see if there’s anyone interesting there? And of course, do avail yourself of the festivities.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
I can’t stand Baylor but their offense is fun to watch.
Corner Stone
@Trollhattan:
It’s like a weird karma you posted that at #102.
Suffern ACE
@Poopyman: I would think that the most interesting volunteers in Baltimore would be found at the American Visionary Art Museum. Although parking there is a pain.
Steeplejack
@Corner Stone:
This blog is Fahrenheit?! Christ, I thought it was Celsius all along. This explains a lot.
JPL
@burnspbesq: Cute. I tried to call my son at his apt when he was in college.
The phone was disconnected and the phone company said there didn’t appear to be a reason for that. Of course, I wanted to do what any parent would do and call the police for a check but fortunately, someone talked me down. They hadn’t paid their bill, btw.
Corner Stone
@Villago Delenda Est:
Lacking context of any other piece of data, if they had shown me a doctor’s report determining it as “abuse” and “excessive”, and shown me pics of healing open wounds, I would’ve voted to indict.
Hopefully a trial will further explain to us all how the 4 year old deserved it, and the indictment occurred because he’s black.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Kelvin. Definitely Kelvin.
/Rain Man
Howard Beale IV
@Steeplejack: Could be in the Reamur scale….
Comrade Mary
Toronto just got extra weird.
Steeplejack
I’m heading into the final weekend of my three-week Las Vegas interlude. Going to dinner at Five Guys in a bit with my old college friend. Tomorrow night we’ll probably hit Penn’s Thai House again. That was really good. RWNJ brother flies in from South America late Sunday morning, and then I fly back to D.C. Monday afternoon.
The trip has been mostly a success, with a few episodes of family drama (the mom unit) and a lot of time spent navigating the health-care system to get her injured back treated. Very frustrating. But we did get to spend some quality time together.
I will definitely be glad to get back home and see the housecat. The last hurdle is the return flight, which will probably be packed. Doubly painful because on the way out the plane was about a quarter full and I had a whole row to myself. Sheer luxury!
Corner Stone
@Steeplejack:
This blog has never had even 2/5ths of the savoire fair needed to be Celsius.
It’s an RPM hard drive in an SSD world.
Anne Laurie
@Feebog:
Ouch! Sending positive thoughts in your direction…
Corner Stone
@Steeplejack: Speaking of Vegas, Ben Jealous is now on the Chris Hayes show.
Not sure if he’s drunk/hungover this time.
Anne Laurie
@Mnemosyne: It’d be nice if we could blame it all on one vile book, wouldn’t it? But from the clip I saw on the tv news, Peterson says he just treated his kid “like my daddy treated me”. Physical abuse, aka ‘strict discipline’ is still the default for child-raising in far too many American families, religious or not, because that’s how so many people remember growing up. It’ll be another couple generations, at best, before the default is not hitting kids to “train” them!
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
Anyone want to guess what’ll happen to Goodell if the Ray Rice extra suspension gets overturned on appeal? It sounds like the official notice he sent to the NFLPA is full of bullshit about the video showing something completely different than what Rice previously admitted to. Given that there are multiple witnesses who have said that that’s not true it might not stand up in front of an arbitrator.
Howard Beale IV
@Corner Stone:
Dig this: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies just announced availability of helium-sealed 10 Terabyte 3.5″ hard drives.
10 Terabytes.
In reality, it isn’t all that surprising, given that IBM and Sony are working on 100 Terabyte tape drives.
Fair Economist
@NotMax:
That’s cold.
Bill Arnold
@Amir Khalid:
boingboing (David Pescovitz) called it a “gothburger”. I would not eat it. (I don’t eat meat.)
Corner Stone
@Howard Beale IV:
Shoot, I still haven’t found a need to do anything beyond my 128KB expansion to my TRS-80.
Lawn. Off.
trollhattan
@Corner Stone: Hmm, co-ink-ee-dink? I think not.
Survived, now it’s beer o’clock.
Corner Stone
10 freaking TB. In a few months it’ll probably cost about $10 per TB.
Then it will be obsolete a few months after that.
Dog On Porch
@Feebog: The moral being it’s about time you quit your lying, FIBbing ways (get it?). Then put on a pair of boots, and pull them up by their straps. In another words, suck it up, punk.
Ted Cruz 2016…
trollhattan
@Howard Beale IV:
Want!
Just saw the first 512GB SD card. Almost $800. I can wait a year or two.
Corner Stone
@trollhattan: Damn. You remind me of Blair Underwood as the president in that TV show The Event.
Anyone else remember how awesome LA Law was?
Howard Beale IV
@Amir Khalid: The closer you are to a major metroplex (i.e. cable) the better your chances of getting reasonable service. DSL can become adequate only if the ILEC runs fiber to the node. The last best options is fixed point wireless (Motorola Canopy deployments).
If you don’t have any of the above? Forget it.
Steeplejack
@Corner Stone:
LOL. True dat.
Corner Stone
Poor Rachel Maddow. Yes, the Obama admin has been guilty of using propaganda.
Sorry to break it to you.
Howard Beale IV
@Corner Stone: Whatever it is yer smoking, please let me know, so I can avoid it.
Corner Stone
@Howard Beale IV: What do you mean?
I can get a 4TB drive right now for under $140. Did I misunderstand your comment somehow?
Howard Beale IV
@Corner Stone: Yep. Yer slightly off by an order of magnitude.
Corner Stone
@Howard Beale IV: Please to explain it to me then. Slowly, and with no jargon.
Thanks.
Howard Beale IV
@Corner Stone: First you said you in a few months storage will be $10 per TB, then you said you can get a 4 TB drive for $140.
Ain’t me who’s got the explain’ to do.
Corner Stone
@Howard Beale IV: I don’t think it’s too out of bounds to say that in a short amount of time a 10TB drive will be $100.
The fact that a 4TB drive is now $35 per TB is not “an order of magnitude” off.
And that’s right now. The “in a few months” limiter is pretty simple to predict.
tybee
@Howard Beale IV:
i needs me some of them.
Howard Beale IV
@Corner Stone: That depends on the kind of drive you’re purchasing-2 year or 5 year warranty. Makes a big difference price-wise
Corner Stone
@Howard Beale IV: What are you babbling about now?
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-hard-drive-4-TB-USB-3.0/2951745.aspx
A 3 year warranty is $29. In any event, not “an order of magnitude” off.
And if I wanted to quibble about warranties, I am sure I would have. Since I do not…meh.
Howard Beale IV
@Corner Stone: I’m talking about enterprise class drives vs. consumer class drives. But since you can’t tell the difference, i’ll let you wallow in your ignorance.
Corner Stone
@Howard Beale IV: Just so I get this straight, you have no idea what you’re accusing me of then when you say I’m an order of magnitude off?
Thanks
rikyrah
Ferguson tragedy becoming a farce
What happened in Ferguson, Mo., last month was a tragedy. What’s on course to happen there next month will be a farce.
October is when a grand jury is expected to decide whether to indict the white police officer, Darren Wilson, who killed an unarmed black teenager by firing at least six bullets into him. It’s a good bet the grand jurors won’t charge him, because all signs indicate that the St. Louis County prosecutor, Robert McCulloch, doesn’t want them to…
The latest evidence that the fix is in came this week from The Post’s Kimberly Kindy and Carol Leonnig, who discovered that McCulloch’s office has declined so far to recommend any charges to the grand jury. Instead, McCulloch’s prosecutors handling the case are taking the highly unusual course of dumping all evidence on the jurors and leaving them to make sense of it.
McCulloch’s office claims that this is a way to give more authority to the grand jurors, but it looks more like a way to avoid charging Wilson at all — and to use the grand jury as cover for the outrage that will ensue. It is often said that a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to. But the opposite is also true. A grand jury is less likely to deliver an indictment — even a much deserved one — if a prosecutor doesn’t ask for it…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-ferguson-tragedy-becoming-a-farce/2014/09/12/e52226ca-3a82-11e4-9c9f-ebb47272e40e_story.html
Howard Beale IV
@tybee: Gonna be a while until they come up with a standard. Once they do, LTO will be dead as a doorknob.
WaterGirl
@rikyrah: Just when you think it can’t get any more maddening…
Why is there not a special prosecutor for this case? Thank god that (hopefully) the DOJ will step in if nothing happens locally.
tybee
@Howard Beale IV:
damn. i have cases of the damn things. :)
satby
@Feebog: hope you fell better and get sprung tomorrow!
satby
@satby: feel. Feel better Feebog.
drkrick
@WaterGirl:
Because the (Missouri) Democratic governor decided not to ask for one.
Questions for the lawyers – if the GJ chooses not to indict, there’s no jeopardy and a special prosecutor or someone else can come in later and indict, correct? What could McCullough do to make that impossible?
Howard Beale IV
@tybee: As of what Wikipedia says is the current progression of the LTO spec, LTO-10, maxes out at 48 TB native. And that’s four generations from what is currently deployed in the field (LTO-6).
Fred
@Suffern ACE: Protesting a doughnut shop run by teen age girls? I think the trouble with small towns (I live in one and used to live in another) is that too many folks are just bored. They literally have nothing else to do or think about but what anybody else is doing, thinking or saying. Also the idea that some kids might be having more fun than they are just twists their panties all up in their crotches.
Church Lady #1: ‘Did you hear that immigrant girl opened a shop called “Naughty Girls”? And she put up pictures of girls on the wall naughty clothes.
Church Lady #2: “Well YES! I saw it at the Mall Saturday and it was a disgrace how those hussies were just laughing and wearing short skirts and makeup and I don’t know what all. Now I can’t let my kids go to the Mall ’cause now THEY want to go in that den of iniquity and buy doughnuts. Did I tell you it’s a D-I-S-G-R-A-C-E?
Hey Church Ladys: The kids always have more fun than you. Get over it.